In today's Herald-Advocate News Briefs, we read:
Mayor won't investigate alleged leak
So there you have it folks. Your Mayor is more concerned about who ratted out his toady than he is with the fact that his toady was croaking his fool head off!
At one point, Mayor Howard was so concerned about the disclosure of confidential information that he pressed for a condemnation of an elected official and lobbied individual aldermen to lend their names to that condemnation. And he did that without a "request from the City Council".
Mayor won't investigate alleged leak
Park Ridge Mayor Howard Frimark said he is not investigating 1st Ward Alderman David Schmidt's charge that details of a separation agreement with Police Chief Jeff Caudill were leaked to a member of the public before the City Council received a copy of the agreement.
"I'm personally not looking into it," Frimark said. "I only do requests that are made by the City Council and this is a request by Alderman Schmidt."
Schmidt claims a former police officer knew details of the agreement and was sharing them even though aldermen had been told the agreement was confidential. Schmidt said Frimark later told him that terms of the agreement were leaked by a member of the Police Pension Fund Board, but the mayor denies knowing who, if anyone, had shared the information. He said he has not spoken with any members of the Police Pension Board. Acting City Manager Juliana Maller said she provided the mayor with a list of individuals who had access to the separation agreement.
In a March 5 e-mail sent to Maller, Schmidt wrote, "It is apparently the position of the current mayor and council that disclosure of confidential information is a serious matter which needs to be forcefully addressed. In the spirit of that recently-demonstrated position, I expect that this matter will be thoroughly investigated."
Frimark said that if Schmidt wants the alleged leak investigated, it would "behoove him to find out where the accusation is coming from."
So there you have it folks. Your Mayor is more concerned about who ratted out his toady than he is with the fact that his toady was croaking his fool head off!
At one point, Mayor Howard was so concerned about the disclosure of confidential information that he pressed for a condemnation of an elected official and lobbied individual aldermen to lend their names to that condemnation. And he did that without a "request from the City Council".
You see, it's not that Mayor Howard is really concerned about the disclosure of confidential information. He's concerned with having control of the flow of confidential information.
Pucker up, Park Ridge! Mayor Howard just told you where to plant one.
9 comments:
How Nixonian.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED!, that Mayor Frimark would so openly engage in such double-standards...
Noxonian? A more current description would be...Spitzerian!
I heard from a thoroughly reliable source that the mayor claims he did investigate Kristiegate, found out some information, but wanted to tell Alderman Schmidt about it in private. Schmidt told the mayor he should disclose it to all of the aldermen. The mayor refuses. Why won't he? Who is he covering up for? One of the Frimark Five? Himself?
The "Frimark Five" is exactly right. Or as PublicWatchdog calls them, the "Alderpuppets." But at least we've got a couple of decent aldermen - unlike the "all jamokes,
all the time" crew over at the Dist. 64 school board.
As resident Robert Smith notes in his letter in today's Advocate, he and other voters who supported last April's referendum got suckered by the CSS Kool-Aid peddlers. And there's not even one Dave Schmidt or Frank Wsol on that sorry Board.
1-800-the feds
maybe HE is "Client #10"
ms. manchester,
That will be 100 Our Fathers and 50 Hail Mary's for blaspheming!
HE hung with the sinners, but we bet HE never paid any of them for anything.
;-)
well, I'll do the penance because I am sure I need it. And it's Lent too.
I meant "he" to be Howie. But I now hear on talk radio that "Client #10" is more like a former Chicago sports star with lots of money. I hope it's not true.
Off to say the prayers now....
:-)You're a good sport.
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